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txt: Coca- Cola not ‘buying’ Venice – ANSA

Coca-Cola is not ”buying” Venice, its city council said Monday, reacting to polemics over a planned million-dollar partnership between the drinks giant and the lagoon city.

Italian daily La Stampa reported Monday that the city was ”selling itself” to Coca-Cola in a 2.1 million-dollar deal that will involve ”vending machines in every corner of the city”, including St Mark’s Square, where tourists are forbidden from picnicking under strict council rules on urban decorum.

img: Coca-Cola Love – Jax60 on flickr

[txt] Outrage in Venice as giant ads smother cultural jewels – www.guardian.co.uk

Since the end of August, a vast Lancia car has been parked on the front of the Palazzo Ducale in Venice. A giant Rolex watch has been draped over the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, also in St Mark’s Square. And, by the Grand Canal, the facade of the Ca’ Rezzonico palazzo has been smothered with an advert for jeans. “We have reached the point at which there is a naked woman – covered only by a bag – on the front of a church,” raged Da Mosto.

[img] piazza San Marco sponsorized 1 – oddtag on flickr